Note That There Was No Claim For

Captain Ahab Was A Man Possessed With An Obsessional Drive To Pursue The White Whale Which Had Harmed Him - Which Had Torn His Leg Out - To The Ends Of The Earth, No Matter What Happened. In The Final Scene Of The Novel, Captain Ahab Is Being Borne Out To Sea, Wrapped Around The White Whale With The Rope Of His Own Harpoon And Going Obviously To His Death. It Was A Scene Of Almost Suicidal Finality.

Part Of The Main Plan Of Imperialism... Is That We Will Give You Your History, We Will Write It For You, We Will Re-order The Past...what's More Truly Frightening Is The Defacement, The Mutilation, And Ultimately The Eradication Of History In Order To Create... An Order That Is Favorable To The United States.

The Orient That Appears In Orientalism, Then, Is A System Of Representations Framed By A Whole Set Of Forces That Brought The Orient Into Western Learning, Western Consciousness, And Later, Western Empire.... The Orient Is The Stage On Which The Whole East Is Confined. On This Stage Will Appear The Figures Whose Role It Is To Represent The Larger Whole From Which They Emenate. The Orient Then Seems To Be, Not An Unlimited Extension Beyond The Familiar European World, But Rather A Closed Field, A Theatrical Stage Affixed To Europe.

I Am For Peace. And I Am For A Negotiated Peace. But This Accord Is Not A Just Peace.

Every Single Empire In Its Official Discourse Has Said That It Is Not Like All The Others, That Its Circumstances Are Special, That It Has A Mission To Enlighten, Civilize, Bring Order And Democracy, And That It Uses Force Only As A Last Resort. And, Sadder Still, There Always Is A Chorus Of Willing Intellectuals To Say Calming Words About Benign Or Altruistic Empires.